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So many people wonder what to do with their Pre-Kindergarten kiddos to provide a well rounded curriculum. Well, I’d love to share our plan with you! Each week we have a focus on a letter, color/shape, math concept and Bible story. Follow along at your own Preschool school or at home with your little one for ideas! Join us!

We have two different age groups of cuties with us. Preschool, which are young 3’s to young 4’s and Pre-K, which is 4’s-5’s. Today I’ll share “What we did” with our Pre-Kindergarten kiddos for letter Aa week.

We spent a long introduction on letter Aa, what shape it has and the sound it makes. Then we get the chance to practice! We built letter A on foam mats with wood pieces from Handwriting Without Tears.

Then we tried it with shaving cream. Oh the joyful giggles we got upon success. Makes it all totally worth it!!

On the second day of letter Aa practice we use “Wipe It” boards. Basically I printed out the “Wipe It” pages and then insert them into page protectors. They make great wipe off boards. If you make a mistake, no worries!!

We also color the “Read it” books for letter Aa. They are books that progress through various sight words during the year. We begin with simply a word and end up adding on sight words to make simple sentences. The entire set of Read-It books will be available in my shop soon!

At this point in the year we search for letter Aa in the book and color it with a marker. Later we’ll search for sight words.

For Math we also worked on sorting by color. We sorted paper apples in various forms, pom pom balls and bugs. The kids loved it! You can find the apple game below in my apple pack.

To add a fine motor element sometimes we use clothes pins to pick up and move the objects or kid tweezers.

We also read the story of David and Goliath and make stick puppets.

We had such a great week. It’s amazing to see all they can learn in such a short amount of time!

So many people wonder what to do with their Preschool kiddos to provide a well rounded curriculum. Well, I’d love to share our plan with you! Each week we have a focus on a letter, color/shape, math concept and Bible story. Follow along at your own Preschool school or at home with your little one for ideas! Join us!

We have two different age groups of cuties with us. Preschool, which are young 3’s to young 4’s and Pre-K, which is 4’s-5’s. Today I’ll share “What we did” with our Preschool kiddos and then another day I’ll share what the Pre-K did.

After introducing the letter Aa and the sound it makes we completed a do-a-dot project for Aa. You can find these in my “shop” for Creative Preschool Resources. Just $1.50 for the entire alphabet, upper & lower case!

While one group was making their do-a-dot A’s, the other half of the class was listening to “The Biggest Apple” on the listening center. I always get my listening centers from Scholastic.

For math we focused on sorting this week! We sorted apples by color, pom pom balls by color and even plastic bugs by color.

We read the story David and Goliath this week incorporating lots of action to get the kids involved. To help them re-tell the story we created David & Goliath stick puppets.

The next day we created the cutest capital A’s and turned them into alligators with googly eyes. This project is from ABC Twiggles.

We celebrated a birthday with a cute little 3 year old!!

Above we created color hats for our color of the week, red. Of course, the week wouldn’t be complete without a wear red day and red sharing (aka show & tell) day. Such a fun week for these little ones. Throw in free choice, recess, stories, songs and cleaning up and our 4.5 hours were very productive!

White board markers… we have a love hate relationship. I love their ease but man, when they come home on my sons khaki uniform pants I just cringe. I have yet to find anything wonderful to remove the marker. Grr! Regardless of my love hate relationship with them my students love using them!!

Every week when we are working on letter formation we use wipe off sheets to practice the letters. Simply laminate the sheets or easier then that, put them in a sheet protector. {That’s what this teacher does}

The top section is to learn letter formation based on the numerical directions and to practice that. The middle section is to trace, once again using the correct order of steps. The bottom section is to try it on their own and lastly they get to “WIPE IT!”. Just for fun we use really big (like 3 inch) pom pom balls as their erasers. The kids think that’s pretty fun.

You can purchase the entire set – 26 upper case and 26 lower case “Wipe It!” pages at my shop or just click HERE.

Good luck with letter formation with your Pre-K and Kindergarten kiddos.

I love seeing all the wonderful and creative crafts posted on the web! So much information is at our fingertips and I’m so thankful. Below is a collection of my VERY FAVORITE chicks that I found on the web and believe me, I combed through a lot of sites. 🙂

Need more rainbow ideas? Here are a few that I found on-line, but for this DIYer I think the google page is actually even better than pinterest. Sometimes I just need to see an idea and I can make it my own without clicking through to a website. Hope you enjoy these ideas.

I am so excited that part of my dream is beginning to come true. I am beginning write my own curriculum!! I know, AHHHHH!!! Totally scary and fun at the same time!

All of this excitement has stemmed from the multiple A-Z curricula I piece together as I teach one letter a week. (Curricula is a weird plural version of curriculum, believe me, I looked it up.) I’m working on creating my own A-Z printables and this is the first set I’m sharing with you.

My students complete this page as one of their letter learning activities. We teach letter formation over a few days in creative ways and this page is the culmination of what they’ve learned. The top portion is to “rainbow write” both the capital and lower case letters with crayon. The middle portion is to practice writing each letter with a pencil and the bottom rectangle is intended for the student to draw something beginning with the letter.

This 26 page custom made set is available HERE in my store for just $1.99.

Keep an eye out for MORE A-Z sets in the next few weeks/months! Happy learning!

Speaking of Snowmen have you seen my previous posts about cute snowmen projects? This year we are making both the puffy snowman and the sock snowman to add to our classroom decorations!! Check them out at the links above each picture.Sock Snowman

Do you wanna build a snowman??? (Sing along, I’m sure you know the tune) I sang that line over and over during this project with my kiddos.

If you’ve never heard of a glyph before you’ve got to check this out. This is a super cute snowman project, but the best part is that each one will look unique and different based on each child’s preferences.

Each child will answer various questions about winter and class favorites.

They then each build a fun and unique snowman. My students just loved this project!

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Hi, my name is Heather and I am a Mom of 2, a preschool teacher and a crafter! Welcome to Creative Preschool Resources where you can find all sorts of creative ideas for educating little people, crafting with them, crafting for YOURSELF and your home!